Israeli soldiers conduct morning prayers at an Israeli army deployment area near the Israel-Gaza Strip border as they prepare for a potential ground operation in the Palestinian coastal enclave on November 20, 2012. (Photo by Jack Guez/AFP Photo)

An Israeli soldier sleeps on a tank at a staging area near the Israel Gaza Strip Border, southern Israel, early Tuesday, November 20, 2012. (Photo by Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Photo)

Israeli soldiers rest in a deployment area as the conflict between Palestine and Gaza enters its seventh day on November 20, 2012 on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip. Hamas militants and Israel are continuing talks aimed at a ceasefire as the death toll in Gaza reaches over 100 with three Israelis also having been killed by rockets fired by Palestinian militants. (Photo by Uriel Sinai)

An Israeli soldier jumps from a tank in a deployment area as the conflict between Palestine and Gaza enters its seventh day on November 20, 2012 on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip. Hamas militants and Israel are continuing talks aimed at a ceasefire as the death toll in Gaza reaches over 100 with three Israelis also having been killed by rockets fired by Palestinian militants. (Photo by Lior Mizrahi)

An Israeli soldier prays atop a tank at a staging area near the border with central Gaza November 20, 2012. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

Israeli soldiers prepare tanks at an Israeli army deployment area near the Israel-Gaza Strip border for a potential ground operation in the Palestinian coastal enclave on November 20, 2012. Senior Israeli ministers decided overnight to hold off from launching a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip to give Egyptian-led truce efforts a chance to work, a senior Israeli official said. (Photo by Jack Guezjack/AFP Photo)

Israeli soldiers hold up ammunition as they stand atop a tank in a staging area near the Israel-Gaza Border on Tuesday. Israeli aircraft on Tuesday battered the headquarters of the bank Gaza's Hamas leaders set up to sidestep international sanctions on their rule, as fitful efforts to negotiate an end to the week-old convulsion of violence moved to the highest reaches of diplomacy. (Photo by Ariel Schalit/Associated Press)

An Israeli soldier atop a tank looks at air force fighter jets circling overhead an Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) staging area in the northern Gaza border November 21, 2012. Israeli air strikes shook the Gaza Strip and Palestinian rockets struck across the border as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks in Jerusalem in the early hours of Wednesday, seeking a truce that can hold back Israel's ground troops. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

Israeli soldiers pray at dawn as the conflict between Palestine and Gaza enters its seventh day on November 20, 2012 on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip. Hamas militants and Israel are continuing talks aimed at a ceasefire as the death toll in Gaza reaches more than 100 and also three Israelis killed by rockets fired by Palestinian militants. (Photo by Christopher Furlong)

An Israeli soldier loads ammunition into a weapon atop a tank at a staging area near the Israel Gaza Strip Border, southern Israel, Tuesday, November 20, 2012. On Tuesday, grieving Gazans were burying militants and civilians killed in ongoing Israeli airstrikes, and barrages of rockets from Gaza sent terrified Israelis scurrying to take cover. Efforts to end a week-old convulsion of Israeli-Palestinian violence drew in the world's top diplomats Tuesday, with U.S. President Barack Obama dispatching his secretary of state to the region on an emergency mission and the U.N. chief appealing from Cairo for an immediate cease-fire. (Photo by Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Photo)

Israeli soldiers sleep next to their armored personal carriers in a staging area in southern Israel on Monday. (Photo by Ariel Schalit/Associated Press)

An Israeli soldier adjusts the barrel of a tank at a staging area near the border with central Gaza November 20, 2012. (Photo by Darren Whiteside/Reuters)

An Israeli officer holds a Torah as he reads from a holy book while others gather in a staging area near the Israel – Gaza Strip border on Monday. (Photo by Ariel Schalit/Associated Press)